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The PC is dead. Long live the cloud PC.  ZDNet

Meet The New KDE Linux Laptop That’s More Powerful Than MacBook Pro  Forbes

In meeting their plans for shipping Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" before Christmas, the Xfce / MATE / Cinnamon editions of this updated Linux distribution shipped this morning...

Moving from an RTOS to Linux  Electronic Design

Intel Core i9 10980XE: Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance  Phoronix

A few weeks back having done Threadripper 3970X Windows vs. Linux benchmarks for seeing how the competing operating systems are performing, following the recent i9-10980XE 11-way Linux distributions tests I loaded up Microsoft Windows 10 Pro November 2019 Update... Here are those benchmarks for those wondering how the Cascadelake-X platform is running in Windows vs. Linux performance.

1. Linux Mint 19.3 “Tricia” Released: Here's What's New!  It's FOSS
2. Linux Mint 19.3 has been released  Ghacks Technology News
3. Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' now available in three editions  Neowin
4. Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" Released With Better HiDPI Support, App Changes  Phoronix
5. Linux Mint 19.3 released (better HiDPI support + new apps and features)  Liliputing
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Linux Mint 19.3 “Tricia” Released: Here's What's New!  It's FOSS

Excluding the Linux hardware reviews, here is a look back at the most-viewed Radeon Linux/open-source graphics driver news of the 2010s...

The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s  Phoronix

The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s  Phoronix

NVIDIA announced the new DRIVE AGX Orin last night as their software-defined platform for robots and vehicles. Besides the DRIVE AGX itself, making it very notable is the use of their new Tegra "Orin" SoC...

Crossing the platforms: The Register checks in with Canonical's WSL alternative – Multipass  The Register

How to Enable the Linux Bash Shell on Windows 10 [Supports WSL 2]  Beebom

Lazarus Group Unleashes Its First Linux Malware  Fossbytes

While it's normally recommended switching to the P-State/CPUFreq "performance" governor for the optimal Linux gaming experience and the preferred default of Feral's GameMode Linux gaming daemon, in the case of Intel integrated graphics you may find better results in using the "powersave" governor...

Intel iGPU Linux Gamers May Be Better Off With The "Powersave" Governor  Phoronix

Sysadmins, those of us who run and manage Linux computers most closely, have direct access to tools that help us work more efficiently. To help you use these tools to their maximum benefit to make your life easier, this series of articles explores using automation in the form of Bash shell scripts. It covers:

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Preserving and resurrecting old computers is a popular part of the Linux hacker's ethos, and one way to help make that possible is with a desktop environment that doesn't use up scarce system resources. After all, the fact that a current version of Linux can run effectively on a computer over 15 years old is quite a feat, but it doesn't make the CPU and RAM any better than the day they were slotted in. There are extremely light desktops available, but there's usually a catch: the user must assemble the parts.

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Linux Mint 19.3 “Tricia” Released: Here's What's New!  It's FOSS